Deer Camp Blog- the outdoor column of The Bodock Times- (a satirical periodical)
Humor and Hunting at the famous Christmas Place Plantation Hunting Club on the edge of the Mississippi Delta

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Albino Fawn

Truett Rohrscheib sent me this, he claims to be a friend of Burneys which makes him suspect.Albino Fawn from folks who live on Bolivar Peninsula , TexasA very eventful day around here... A once in many lifetimes experience! Mark saw this lil' feller run out in front of a car, thought it was a lost baby goat. Stopped to get it, and WOW. A real Albino Whitetail Deer. Just hours old, but doing fine. No Mama deer around. Another car nearly hit it in front of Mark... Well,, he is THE neatest thing any of us ever saw. And such a 'freak of nature', that only 1 in more than a million are even born. He took his bottle of food, followed us around the house, doing great. So, we called the Zoo & Fossil Rim, who were both interested, but going to send him to a Rehab farm, at a vet that we have never gotten along with... So, one of Dad's best friends is our Game Warden. Kinda reluctantly, but, I called him and told him the deal. He came right over, of course... and assured me that he wouldn't take it to that vet, that he was going to 'go to higher levels' than that with him. So, he is gone now. We got a lot of pix, and something we will never see again probably, so it was very cool. Maybe he will make it in captivity somewhere and be appreciated. So rare... Sure wanted to keep him tho. but, not the thing to do. And not LEGAL either ; But, here are a couple of pix to show ya. He was snow white, pink eyes, ears, nose and hooves. Kids called him POWDER. He was SO small. That is my shoe lying beside him... WOW..how cool is that?? The members of the Christmas Place Exotic Species Hunting Club are in a lather and are putting "POWDER" on the guest waiting list to come spend some time here after he gets about 12 points on his head.